“It's my diary", she'd explained. "Every mark I've had drawn on my skin connects me to where and who I've been- so… — Charles de Lint Beauty Copy Share Image
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. — Charles de Lint Expected Copy Share Image
What I want to do is travel deep and deeper into the dreamlands, to find that place that I know is waiting… — Charles de Lint Deeper Copy Share Image
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she… — Charles de Lint Doe Copy Share Image
The stronger a woman gets, the more insecure the men in her life feel. It doesn’t work that way for a woman.… — Charles de Lint Celebrate Copy Share Image
I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world… — Charles de Lint Better world Copy Share Image
She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd… — Charles de Lint Deer Copy Share Image
“People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They… — Charles de Lint Fairy tale Copy Share Image
I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her… — Charles de Lint Boxes Copy Share Image
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it? — Charles de Lint Art Copy Share Image
The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear. — Charles de Lint Advice Copy Share Image
“Faerie music is the wind", he says, "and their movement is the play of shadow cast by moonlight, or starlight, or no… — Charles de Lint Faerie Copy Share Image
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing… — Charles de Lint Circle of friends Copy Share Image
The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves.… — Charles de Lint Change Copy Share Image
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but… — Charles de Lint Death Copy Share Image
But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on… — Charles de Lint Burden Copy Share Image
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So,… — Charles de Lint Book Copy Share Image
Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and… — Charles de Lint Ads Copy Share Image
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and… — Charles de Lint Belief Copy Share Image
From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but… — Charles de Lint Air Copy Share Image
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me. — Charles de Lint Hands Copy Share Image
Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first… — Charles de Lint Cold Copy Share Image
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in… — Charles de Lint Attention Copy Share Image
